UN Chief admires India’s vaccine production capacity, says best asset world has today

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday admired India’s vaccine production capacity and said it is the “best asset” that the world has today.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday admired India’s vaccine production capacity and said it is the “best asset” that the world has today.

Addressing Press, the UN chief said, “I know that in India there is a very high level of production of Indian developed vaccines. We are in contact with Indian institutions for that. We strongly hope that India will have all the instruments that are necessary to play a major role in making sure that a global vaccination is campaign is made possible.”

An important behind UN’s admiration is that India has has gifted over 55 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccine to neighbouring countries.

Talking about democratize access to medicines, he said that it an important element on the democratization of access to medicines all over the world. He appealed for the licenses to be made available in order for companies around the world to be able to produce some of the vaccines that already exist.

India is also planning to supply 1 crore or 10 million vaccine doses to Africa and 10 lakh to United Nations health workers under GAVI’s (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) COVAX facility.